Where an insurance product manager can go next
5 destinations recorded, ranked by how much of the target role an insurance product manager already meets. The closer to the top of Table 1, the less there is to learn.
Insurance product managers set and direct the development of new insurance products, following the product lifecycle policy and the general insurance strategy. They also coordinate the marketing and sales activities related to the specific insurance products of the company. Insurance product managers inform their sales managers (or the sales department) about their newly developed insurance products.
Also known as insurance product development manager, assurance branch manager, assurance lead, assurance office manager, insurance office manager, assurance relationship manager, assurance sales manager, insurance product development executive, assurance account manager, insurance product developer, insurance lead, insurance sales manager.
Managers 39 skills on file 5 career moves 0 above 60% overlap Closest: insurance claims manager, 59%
- 70% and above · short step
- 50 to 70% · real move
- Below 50% · substantial retraining
Table 2 · A bigger jump
Possible, but expect real retraining rather than a sideways step.
Table 3 · What the job itself asks for
An insurance product manager needs 26 required skills and areas of knowledge. These 10 are the ones fewest other jobs share, so they say the most about the work.
- develop financial products management skills
- promote financial products communication, collaboration and creativity
- create insurance policies communication, collaboration and creativity
- insurance market business, administration and law
- marketing management business, administration and law
- plan marketing campaigns management skills
- insurance law business, administration and law
- principles of insurance business, administration and law
- types of insurance business, administration and law
- supervise sales activities management skills
Table 4 · Jobs that lead here
The reverse view: occupations whose skills already cover much of what an insurance product manager does. The figure is how much of this job each one brings.
- insurance agency manager 70% covered · difficulty 36.8
- insurance claims manager 67% covered · difficulty 40.3
- relationship banking manager 58% covered · difficulty 48.4
- banking products manager 56% covered · difficulty 50.3
- credit union manager 52% covered · difficulty 54.4
- fundraising manager 44% covered · difficulty 60.8
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Insurance product manager is filed under Managers, ISCO major group 1. The full index lists all ten groups.
How these figures were compiled
Overlap is how much of the target role is already part of an insurance product manager’s work. It is directional: the figure for the reverse move differs. Every entry above opens the full comparison for that move: what carries over, what is missing, and where to start. The full method.